Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schorsch was dismissed for what the Doctoral Administration called "lack of academic progress." Schorsch believes, however, that his personal behavior--especially his relations with the 16-year-old daughter of a Boston doctor--had been a factor in his dismissal...
...concentration on his meetings suggests he is a serious man who could be trusted. That is his central mission, and if he implants even a speck of that idea then he will make progress...
...waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe, RFE's audience is impressive: 78% of all radio-listening Poles, 81% of the Hungarians, 77% of Rumanians, 78% of Bulgarians and 60% of the Czechoslovaks. At present, all the East bloc countries except...
THOSE Depression lyrics from the musical Sing for Your Supper were first presented to the public in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. At the same time, that agency was covering the country with highways, bridges, sidewalks, sewers and dams, giving free piano lessons to housewives and eventually providing jobs for 8.5 million Americans who otherwise would have been unemployed. Its activities have suddenly become of considerably more than antiquarian interest. The Nixon Administration has sneered that Democrats pushing public employment programs to relieve current joblessness are only "rediscovering the WPA" although at least one Administration official has suggested that...
...useless pronouncements on poetry ("In poetry I want a kind of deep clarity"), and quotations from other writers which only remind us that we could spend our time more profitably reading something else. The worst part of it is the musings over the technical difficulties of his novel in progress which are presented in such a fragmentary manner that we never know what he is getting at. Besides, who, even ten years ago, would consider presenting rough draft passages of a novel with notations even before it is published? Imagine Robert Frost publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous...